There seems to be a bit of confusion on how the upgrade from an existing vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5/6.0 to the upcoming VCSA 6.5 release will work. I suspect part of the confusion is also due to the fact that the underlying OS in the VCSA in vSphere 6.5 is changing from SLES to VMware’s very own […]
vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool officially GAs w/vSphere 6.0 Update 2m
Today, I am very happy to announce that we have released the official Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool which is part of the new VCSA vSphere 6.0 Update 2m release! I know many of you have been asking for an update since we released the VCS to VCSA Convert Appliance Fling a little […]
Quick Tip - How to disable the landing page for vCenter Server 5.x & 6.x?
The question of wanting to disable the default landing page for the vCenter Server is one that comes up infrequently. In fact, I probably see this maybe once or twice a year. However, when it does come up, it usually revolves around two topics: some sort of security risk and limiting users from obtaining software […]
Configuring VCSA 6.0 as vSphere Web Client Server for vSphere 5.5
The vSphere 6.0 Web Client has been greatly improved with the release of vSphere 6.0 which includes a number of performance and UX enhancements. If you are interested in some of the details, be sure to check out this blog post by Dennis Lu, Product Manager of the vSphere Web Client. To really get the […]
Quick Tip - vCenter Server advanced settings for vSphere 5.5 & 6.0
This was a question that was recently asked in an internal thread regarding the list of available advanced settings in vCenter Server. You can find these settings under the “Advanced Settings” section of all places 😉 and this is available both in the vSphere Web/C# Client. I wrote a script awhile back that allows you […]